Improvement in gas apparatus



J. GEI-SENBERGER.

GAS APPARATUS.

No.181,666. I Patented Aug. 29,1876;

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ATTORNEYS and in the State of Pennsylvania, have inaccompanying drawings, and to-the letters of drocarbon, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFIGE.

JOSEPH GEISENBERGER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PATRICK GORMLY, SR, AND ISAAC GEISENBERGER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAS APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,666, dated August 29, 1876; application filed August 17, 1876. I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it-known that I, JOSEPH GEISENBERGER, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia,

vented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas .Apparatus; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

My invention relates to carburetin g gas apparatus; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the carbureter, whereby the air is forced to travel back and forth, and become thoroughly impregnated with the hy- In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same;

A represents a hollow cylinder of any suitamade fast thereto. The head B is provided with two or more concentric cylinders, O 0, made fast thereto, and extending nearly to the head This head B is provided with two or more similar concentric cylinders, G G, fitting within the cylinders U G, and extending nearly to the opposite head B,as shown. Within the cylinder A, next to the head B, is acircular perforated pipe, I), through which the air is forced into the carbnreter. At the. bottom of the center cylinder G is placed a strainer, G, with outlet-pipe H passing through the head B. 1

The entire carbureter, thus constructed, is to be packed full with sawdust and gasoline, or other similar volatile hydrocarbon liquid is admitted, through the inlet E at the top, until the sawdust is completely saturated therewith. Air being then forced through the pipe D, escapes into the space between the exterior'shell or cylinder A and the first cylinder (J, passes to the other end of the c'arbureter, where it enters the said first cylinder 0, and returns to the head B. At this point it enters the first cylinder 0, and so on, alternately back and forth, until it enters and passes through the last cylinder 0, and out through the pipeEI, the air, during its course, becoming thoroughly impregnated with the hydrocarbon. Whenever necessary a fresh supply of gasoline is readily admitted.

Instead of concentric cylinders I may use radial wings, extendingalternately from one head to near the other, and admit the air atone end of one of the triangular spaces thus formed, and cause it to pass back and forth in the same manner.

It will be seen, by my construction of apparatus, that the perforated air-pipe lies between the outer shell and the first partition or cylinder. Hence, the air is passed into the largest space within the case or cylinder first, and, after transmission back and forthbetween the inner spaces, has its exit through the smallest space last. eration ofthe material is prevented.

Having thus fullyjdescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the hollow case A with liquid-pipe E, the series of partitions or cylinders O and 0 connected res iectivel to the heads B and B, the perforated air-pipe D, extending entirely around the interior of one end of the same between the outer case and the first partition or cylinder, the strainer G, and gas-pipe H, all constructed substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day of August, 1876.

JOSEPH GEISENBERGER.

Witnesses:

- L. EISINGER, .C. L. EVERT.

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